BG 13.32
यथा सर्वगतं सौक्ष्म्यादाकाशं नोपलिप्यते
सर्वत्रावस्थितो देहे तथात्मा नोपलिप्यते
yathā sarvagataṃ saukṣmyād
ākāśaṃ nopalipyate
sarvatrāvasthito dehe
tathātmā nopalipyate
SYNONYMS
yathā: as | sarvagatam: all-pervading | saukṣmyāt: because of its subtlety | ākāśam: ether | na: not | upalipyate: is tainted | sarvatra: everywhere | avasthitaḥ: abiding | dehe: in the body | tathā: even so | ātmā: the self | na 2: not | upalipyate 2: is tainted |
TRANSLATION
As the all-pervading ether is not tainted because of its subtlety, even so, the self abiding in the body everywhere, is not tainted.
PURPORT
As the ‘all-pervading ether,’ though in contact with all substances, is ‘not tainted’ by the qualities of all these substances, as it is ‘subtle’—even so the self, though ‘present in all the bodies,’ everywhere, namely, in divinities, men etc., is not contaminated by these bodies by reason of Its extreme subtleness.